Preheat oven to 450. Mix flour and salt. Knead in the shortening. Sprinkle in water, kneading as you go. Once it makes a nice ball, roll the dough into pie crusts (i recommend doing this on wax paper). Put your crusts in pie tins, making sure there are no holes, and the edges are all nice and pretty. Bake at 450 for ~10min (just lightly browned).

Preheat oven to 350. Cook the bacon and crumble it. Grate the cheeses (or kinda mush the cheese, in the case of the brie). Drain the spinach. Dice the onion, slice the mushrooms if they're not already. Mince the garlic. Sauté onion, mushrooms and garlic together. Beat the eggs. Mix in pretty much everything else (ie, sourcream, half&half, all cheese, spinach, onion, mushrooms, garlic, bacon, salt, pepper, paprika). Pour into pie shells. You could probably fit it all into one pie tin, but I split it into two. Bake at 350 for 45min to an hour, until nicely browned and a knife comes out clean-ish. (My quiches stayed in for ~53 minutes, but really could have gone either way; how long you leave them in is up to your preference.) Remove from the oven and let cool for ~10min. Eat hot tasty quiche!

Thoughts: Double the mushrooms, maybe. Perhaps more meat, and possibly use sausage or ham instead of bacon. Probably really good with tomato -- maybe slice some on top after it's baked, or even bake it in?

Well, if they're gonna be in a quiche anyway, I don't think it'll really harm the presentation. If it screws up the taste or something, though, that's something to worry about.

And, yes, it was around 53. I baked them for 45, and when I checked them they were browned only on one side because the oven heated unevenly, so I rotated them and left them in another 8 minutes or so. Thus, 53 minutes.

i'm used to people being retarded and using bacon fat with eggs... which makes the whole thing look gross...by people, I mean I made eggs that way once... exactly once. and have warned EVERYONE to never mix the two.

I was just shocked that you would use an uncertain term "~" when you were being specific... like... I cooked them for ~15 minutes and 34 seconds.

The cheddar was barely noticeable due to the brie and gouda tastes being so strong, but I imagine you could really substitute any cheese you felt like. Maybe if you liked swiss you could get a *really* pungent quiche going :)I don't see why not; though if you used especially strong-flavored mushrooms I wouldn't double them as I've suggested for the button. What mushrooms were you thinking?It would require experimentation, but I could see other spices being quite good. Basil in particular would likely go quite well, but I don't know about tarragon. Try it and get back to me :)